Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Studio portrait of 4306 Private (Pte) Gerald James Darcy, 24th Battalion. A labourer from Windsor, Victoria prior to enlistment, Pte Darcy embarked with the 10th Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Wiltshire on 7 March 1916. On 13 March 1917, aged 27, he was killed in action in France and, having no known grave, is commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux memorial. This is one of a series of photographs taken by the Darge Photographic Company which had the concession to take photographs at the Broadmeadows and Seymour army camps during the First World War. In the 1930s, the Australian War Memorial purchased the original glass negatives from Algernon Darge, along with the photographers' notebooks. The notebooks contain brief details, usually a surname or unit name, for each negative.